And on the book at the end too... kind of funny that they went and renamed it SNAFU at the last minute...

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Most likely for length's sake. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU isn't as much of a mouthful as My Youth Love Comedy is Wrong As I Expected. And even then, you could just shorten it to SNAFU. Unless there's a show out there that I'm missing that already has that in its title. >_>

The thing is, not many novel names start with Yahari... so they could have made a short form like the Oreshura, Oreimo... but instead they added SNAFU at the end... dunno...

The thing is, not many novel names start with Yahari... so they could have made a short form like the Oreshura, Oreimo... but instead they added SNAFU at the end... dunno...

True, I'd actually just been referring to it as Yahari since I first learned about it. Still do, technically, although I have to admit SNAFU is fun to say as well.

Well, speculating is about the best we can do. It'll just be really confusing if people start addressing it in different ways though.

I had also just gotten used to calling it Yahari, now I don't know what to call it...

Those long titles make it hard for me to buy the right books on amazon.co.jp as sometimes the only different part is at the very end which gets cut off. Still not sure if the long titles are a sort of long running joke or just an attempt to make me buy the wrong series by mistake, which is very easy to do! Which "Ore no..." book did I want again???

I had also just gotten used to calling it Yahari, now I don't know what to call it...

Those long titles make it hard for me to buy the right books on amazon.co.jp as sometimes the only different part is at the very end which gets cut off. Still not sure if the long titles are a sort of long running joke or just an attempt to make me buy the wrong series by mistake, which is very easy to do! Which "Ore no..." book did I want again???

Haha, I feel ya. I'm good with remembering the long names, but I'm finding that it's a disturbingly popular trend within the industry. I just hope they don't get any longer.

The identity of the dog owner is revealed in episode 5. Anyone interested on who the owner is but doesnt want spoilers on the rest of the episode can click on the first spoiler. Second is pretty spoilerific.

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Yui is the dog owner, and the girl who visited him at the hospital..

My views on episode 5

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episode 5 was definitely interesting. Kawasaki was well used not to develop her as a character, but more towards developing all the other characters. We learn that Yukino is part of an influential family, lives alone, and dislikes people passing judgement on her based on her family's social standing. She probably has some kind of sibling she is not particularly close to, hence her reply to the "closest strangers." That last one is just a guess though, I could be wrong, but the others are pretty clear. Also learn Hachiman's parents are usually working, always makes it home before his sister and he cares quite a bit about his sister, even if he doesnt show it due to looking for her when she ran away.
Maybe its just me, but Yukino and Hachiman seem to be getting closer, not in a romantic way but in a friendly way. She pays a good amount of attention to him, even if it is just to insult him.

Especially Hikigaya's monologue at the end; it changed what happened in at the end of the episode from "generic plot development to add tension to the script" to "alright, this actually makes sense for his character."